OUR MISSION
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Advancing collective well-being for people and planet
OUR RESEARCH
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Combining the disciplines of AI, behavioral science, and HCI to enhance human understanding
3 RESEARCH PILLARS
HARMONIOUS
COMMUNITIES.
Bringing to life Toyota's mission of "Happiness for All"
Example Project | Storybook
We build and evaluate tools that help people better understand how we are all interconnected. In doing so, this allows us to experiment and discover the best ways to make more impactful connections. One such tool is Storybook, a web application we built to help people create...
FUTURE
PRODUCTS.
Accelerate innovation and creativity for future products and technologies
Example Project | Inkspire
With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to interpret abstract language and the current user experience of T2I tools can induce design fixation...
CARBON
NEUTRALITY.
Accelerate carbon neutral behavior and improve carbon neutral technologies
Example Project | Carbon Understanding
From ride-hailing to car rentals, consumers are often presented with eco-friendly options. Beyond highlighting a “green” vehicle and CO2 emissions, CO2 equivalencies have been designed to provide understandable amounts; we ask which equivalencies will lead to eco-friendly...
WORK WITH US
OPEN POSITIONS
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We offer internships, fellowships, and full-time roles.
UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIONS
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Collaborative research with North American universities through one of two avenues: 1) HCAI Human-AI Kaizen Initiative Request for Proposals and 2) joint proposal with a TRI co-investigator through our University Research Program 3.0